Ahh, you’re cute. Thinking that this won’t only apply to the ultra rich.
With the advances of medicine in the coming millennium casual conversations might be like "I'm 245", "Oh, I'm 332", "Damn, I'm just 119"
Submitted 1 year ago by egeres@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Vaggumon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
egeres@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was just thinking of a few randos having a chat in a short of futuristic bar, not really thinking much about the socioeconomic impact… 🙇🏻♂️
There1snospoon7491@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, except the randos will be narrowed to an extremely small subset of the population.
Like, one-in-a-hundred-million small.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t see this happening. Our organic bodies begin to dramatically deteriorate before we come anywhere close to age 100. We’ll have to stave off natural cellular deterioration with medicine and special treatments to prolong our lives now.
Provided humanity doesn’t kill ourselves off by fighting against ourselves or losing the war against microplastics and global warming, I see us migrating to a new form of existence. That may involve two branches: We become cyborgs, or we merge ourselves into the digital realm.
Our advances in robotics and prosthetics is quite likely to be the more preferred approach. If we could keep our brains alive and somehow transplant our synaptic makeup safely into a new mechanical body, we’ll dramatically extend our lives (until natural brain cells begin to break down and we cease to exist or become someone entirely different).
The less likely approach is to upload ourselves into the digital realm, whatever that looks like. We already have a distributed, decentralized, and global internet. We’re experimenting with VR, and we’re starting to begin layering the digital world on top of the physical world via the use of Augmented Reality. Over time, perhaps we’ll be able to terraform the digital world and be able to achieve 1:1 digital likenesses of ourselves. The brain after all is electrical impulses of prodigious complexity. We certainly should be able to replicate that ability, but the programming will have to dramatically transform into something we’ve never seen before. ChatGPT and “AI” are precursors to that evolution in our ability to one day emulate, and dare I say replicate, actual sentience. But we’ll need to build a new programming language that computers can understand and execute autonomous instructions that are not based on statistics or logical expressions - it would have to be similar to thinking, or true AI. We are nowhere close to that.
Unfortunately any of us here reading this won’t be alive when any of this happens, but that’s where I see humanity going. We won’t be able to extend our organic bodies due to organic decay. Humans would have to evolve over the next million years in order to have longer organic lives, or we’d have to be able to splice our genes with animals that can live longer like certain tortoises. Then we’d be a new branch of human that moves on from the homo sapien line.
xoggy@programming.dev 1 year ago
I like the double speak. Could be their ages, could be their health scores used for social and employment status.
croobat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If that was the natural progression for naming conventions we all would be named like Elon Musk’s children.
isyasad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think OP means they are talking about their ages
evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Not if you aren’t rich.